Black softcover, 550 + 4 pages, footnotes, 3 appendixes, 43 b/w illustrations with captions. *** Topics include: History and monuments of alchemy. Medieval alchemy. Alchemical laboratory. Hermetic cabala. Spagyrics. Salamander of Lisieux. Alchemical myth of Adam and Eve. Louis d'Estissac. Spells and wonders of castle of Dampierre. More. *** Originally published 1929. This edition 1999 (based on 1965 edition). First English language and first American edition stated. *** Complete Title: Les Demeures Philosophales, et le symbolisme hermetique dans ses rapports avec l'art sacre et l'esoterisme du grand-oeuvre, with thirty-nine illustrations by Julien Champagne. Translated by Brigitte Donvez and Lionel Perrin.

Fulcanelli Master Alchemist - The Dwellings of the Philosophers

Arts & Photography

FULCANELLI

History & Criticism

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The Dwellings of the Philosophers is perhaps the most important alchemical work of the past two centuries. This first translation into English brings us a wealth of alchemical philosophy that has hitherto been unavailable. Fulcanelli's sentinel masterpiece takes the attentive reader through the alchemical labyrinth, decoding the monuments and architectural decoration built by those who have actively engaged in the Great Work. Fulcanelli instructs us by showing that history must be interpreted by the monuments that have been left and not by the historians who construct a worldview exclusively through documents, which method gives us an often jaded and unrepresentative view of what transpired. 
Not only does Fulcanelli decode and interpret the various alchemical symbols of the houses of the alchemist and philosophers, he goes to great lengths to lay bare and explicate the alchemical worldview of past centuries. Fulcanelli presents us with the deep mysteries of the Great Work.

The Dwellings of the Philosophers

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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